Hitch device



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UNITED STATES PATENT orflicflfif@ CARI. e. vsTRANIJLUND, or MOLIN, ILLINOIS, AssIGNoR To DEERE s'ooIvIPnNY, `or p MOLINE, ILLINOIS, JalCORPORATION OF ILLINoIsJ p IIITOH DEVICE.

Application filed December 13, 1922. Serial iNo. 606,693. I f i To all whom t may concern: Y Y Be it known that I, CARL G, STRANDLUND,

a citizen of theUnited States, residing at' Moline, in the county of Rock Island and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Hitch Devices,

i' of which the following vis -a specification,v reference beinghad therein to the accom- Y panying drawing.

My invention relates to that class of hitch devices employed to connect a tractor with an agricultural implement to be drawn thereby, and has for its object to provide a hitch by which the implement vis offset from .the longitudinal central linerof the tractor and operates automatically to shift the offset position from one side of Vside lines to the other when theA tractor turns to change the direction in .which it is desiredthe imple-` ment shall lope-rate.

Referringto the drawings in which similar numerals indicate identical parts,-

Figure 1 illustrates my device connecting a lister plow with attractor, with the plow offset to the right. f Figure 2 is similarto v Figure 1 but showing the tractor andplow operating in an opposite direction-with the plow offset to the left of Lthej tractor. Figure 3 is an enlarged view-of the hitch deviceV and its connectionl tothe tractor and plow and showing the position of the parts when the tractor isv turning. and the connection with the plow is about to shift to the left in the direction of the turn. Figure 4 is an end view of the hitch device in part section.V

Figure 5 is a detail section on the line 5 5 of Figure 3, and Figure 6 is a detail section on the line 6-6 of Figure 3.

The tractor 1, represented'in dotted lines, has rigidly mounted, on the rear center of its structure, a support 2 with a laterally disposed horizontal flange 3 having its rear edge curved. Pivotally mounted, centrally of its length, on the support 2is a transversely disposed member a formed of two flat parallel bars 3 and 4 spaced apart and secured together by bolts 5 and 6, and the bolt 7 which constitutes the pivoton which the member rocks. Parallel with the bars 3 and 4, and spaced apart therefrom to provide a runway 8, is a bar 9 having its ends bent toward the bars 3 and l and secured respectively between the ends of the bars 3 and 4 by bolt-s 10 and 11.

Bolted on opposite sides respectively of a vertical pivot, means movably attaching the beam. 12 ofalister-plowv 13 i aref'forwardly extending strapslt and 15- and ,be-

`tweenthem issecurely-'bolted a; bar 16. The

forwardend of-the barl-16 projectsinto a to the right and-the; transversely A disposed member a isfat an acuteangletothe line` of draft, whichfit assumes -by the pull of the plow and whichgit maintains by reasonV ofthe -v bolt 5 contacting .with the flange 3.- In makinga turn to the left',.however, as at the end' of a furrow, the member a retainsits relative position,` as shown in Figure V1,* until the'continued turningy of the tractor-S'changes the angle-'of the, memberl a to thelleft; suflicient to cause they forward end fof :the plow :to swing to the left, the pulleofthe plow ycompelling. the roller 19 to rotate along the bar 9 until it is lin contact withthe 'opposite end thereof, and when A,the turn of thetractor is completed the plow is offset tothe left :and the parts areas shownfin Figure 2, the r'bolt 6 then is in contact withv the ange.

I'regu-latethe degree of offset-ineither diai:

rection by inserting bolts or pins inholes 20 .in the bar 9 so that the shackle 17 will contact with and will bear against the bolt on the'side of the offset instead of the roller'19 1kbearing against the adjacent bent end of the.

It is obvious that the action of the parts in a vturn from left to right will be the reverse of that described.

What I claim is-.-y

l1. The Vcombination with a tractor and l a movable body,rof means attaching Jsaid body tothe tractor to o erative position off-set at one side'of lthe ongitudinal central line thereof 'and automatically operating to transfer said body to operative position off-set at the opposite side of said line by a` turn of the tractor in thatV direction.- Y

2. The combination with V a tractor and a movable body, of meansattaching said body to the tractor including a-horizontally dis-A posed rockable member extending transversely'of the rear of the tractor and secured thereon intermediate its length by said body to said member to operative positio-n off-set at oneiside ofthe longitudinal central line of the tractor and automaticallyY movable on said member tothe opposite 'sido' or said Eno when' thegftra'etor tormenti,

its length by' a1 verticali pivot,means mov- `ably attaching said body to said member to izo operative position olii-set lat one side of the longitudinal central lline of' the tractor and automatically vmovableon 'said member `to operative position oE-setat the; opposite side oai-said line when the` tractor turns'- and rocks said member in thatV direc-tion5 and'v means to limitthe rookingvmovement of said mem- Y movab`^lebody,- of means attaching said body 4.- VTheA,ccrab-inatton with a tractor and a movable body, of .means attaching said body to the tractor'including a horizontallydisposed rockab'le vmember -'exteri'ding transversely of the rear of' the tractor Yand secured thereon centrally of its' length by a vertical. pivot, aI runway'extending from side to sdeiof said membeigfmoans movab-ly attaching said body totsai'd' member within the runway to operative positioned-set at y one side ot `the longitudinal central line of side ot the longitudinal central line thereof 'and .Y automatically operating to transfer said body to operative position on the oppositeside of' said line by a turn of the tractor in that direction, andV meansto vary the tractor andauftoinatic'ally movable along said runway to operative 4position od-set to ltheiroppositeside of Vsaid line when the tracvrtorturne and rockssaid member in. that "directionf 1 f '51 The combination with a: tractor `and dinal central line of the tractor the tractor including a horizontally disposed member extending `operatively transversely of thek rear ot the. tractor and .secured thereon cen- :'tra'llyot itsjlengthby a vertical pivot' and roclable in the direction of a turn of the tractor, a runway extending fromside to the'- runwaywhen V theftractor turnsfand rocks-'said member. r

6. The' combination with a .tractor and .a

movabley body, of means attachingsaid body to operative position ott-set to 'thevv longitu-` dinal central line of the' tractor including a horizontally disposed member extending transversely of the rear of the tractor and securedy thereon "centrally of its length by a vertical pivot and rockable by at turn of. the tractor and in .the direction ot said turn, a runway extending from side to side of said member, and ashackle Aconnected to said'body and member and adapted: to

move automatically in said runway to oper-y atingposition off-set to said line. in either direction'by turn of the tractor;

7. The combination with a tractor and a 1 movable body,L of means attaching said-body to the tractor'in operative positiony at one the movement ot said body in either direction'. Y Y

' GAR-L ds'rRANnLuNn.

Certificate of Correction.

It is hereby certiied that in Letters Patent No. 1,553,570, granted September l5, 1925, upon the application of Carl G. Strandlund, of Moline, Illinois, for an improvement in Hitch Devices, errors appear in the-printed specification requiring correction as follows: Page 2, line 4, claim 2, after the Word to insert the Words operative positiony Of-set at; saine page, line 78, claim 7, before the Word Inovenient insert the Word transverse; and that the said Let-ters Patent should be read with these corrections therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Oiiice.

Signed and sealed this 13th day of October, A. D. 1925.

[SEAL] KARL FENNING,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

